Palestine

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu is the quintessential Teflon politician. Though his many years as a statesman have been plagued by one scandal after another, he remains at the helm of Israel unscathed and unchallenged.

More corruption. More censorship. Saed Bannoura via AlterNet: Israeli daily Maariv said Hotovely will be working with Google and YouTube officials in a joint mechanism that will be in charge of “monitoring…

This article originally appeared on Common Dreams. See more of Sarah Lazare’s articles here. Israeli forces are choking, beating, and abusing Palestinian children as young as 11, arresting and coercing them into…

Saree Makdisi writes at the Los Angeles Times: The principle of academic freedom at our universities is under attack by those seeking to shield Israel from criticism by silencing dissent, shutting down…

In his first interview with an Arabic-language newspaper, US President Barack Obama tells Asharq Al-Awsat that the Palestinians deserve “an independent, sovereign state,” which should stoke things up nicely ahead of a…

Jon Queally writes at Common Dreams: On the eve of national elections in Israel, politically-embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that if he and his Likud Party were returned to power for…

Juan Cole writes at Informed Comment: If the International Criminal Court takes up Israeli government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, it could well find specific officials guilty of breaches of the…

via AlterNet: On Aug. 26, Israel and the Palestinian Authority both accepted a cease-fire agreement after a 50-day Israeli assault on Gaza that left 2,100 Palestinians dead and vast landscapes of destruction…

via Dissent Magazine: Conspicuously absent from the debate about ISIS and U.S. intervention—both in the mainstream and in the leftosphere—are Syrian voices. ISIS and U.S. officialdom occupy center stage, leaving the perspectives…

Are we creating personalized propaganda bubbles? Do you only follow news outlets that pump out the same rhetoric? via io9: New data visualizations give a startling picture of online activity during the…

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Abby Martin calls out the media framing of the current violence in Gaza and Israel, highlighting how ABC’s Diane Sawyer misdirected viewers when reporting on the violence in Israel while showing pictures…

Abby Martin calls out the corporate media’s visceral coverage of Secretary of State John Kerry’s remarks on concern the danger of Israel becoming an “Apartheid State”, citing several examples of why Israel’s…

Abby Zimet writes at Common Dreams: Confronting recent criticism of his support for Palestinian rights and the BDS movement in two furious, personal, open letters, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters rips the “crude…

César Chelala writes at Common Dreams: An Australian documentary just released titled “Stone Cold Justice” alleges that some Palestinian children were being physically abused and forced into false confessions by the Israeli…

A provocative title to say the least, but it’s Foreign Policy‘s not ours: The years after World War II were not kind to Britain’s intelligence services — especially MI5, its domestic counterintelligence…

via chycho Below you will find Nelson Mandela’s 1997 address at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, as well as five relevant videos: Address by President Nelson Mandela at…